17 oct. 8 - Calendar

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It seems that at this time there were three different methods of calculating time.
1. Some still reckoned the time from when Lehi left Jerusalem. This reckoning was partly due to the fact that Nephi had prophesied that Christ would come 600 years from that time. However, when the Reign of the Judges began this way of reckoning became uncommon.
2. The most common form of reckoning was from the first year of the Reign of the Judges. This had replaced the reckoning from the time of Lehi as the primary method.
3. The third method was to reckon time from the year the sign of Christ’s birth had been given. This had slowly been gaining ascendancy among the people, and it became the official method of reckoning nine years after the sign was given.